consoling
Example Sentences
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Career coach Gina Riley has been impersonated several times and sometimes finds herself consoling people who falsely believed she contacted them with a golden opportunity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
He walked off with the consoling arm of Shane Lowry’s daughter Iris - who also went close to hitting the putting surface - round his shoulders.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
He claimed that he began consoling a crying Minaj, only for her to start yelling at him.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025
This final turn is less consoling or condemnatory than darkly revealing about our assumptions about Michaela, who's portrayed as a controlling fury for most of the story.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025
But even during those years of guilt, I was coming to sense certain consoling truths about language and intimacy.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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